Weekly Recap – October 13, 2017

Ellyn Davidson 10/12/17 - 9:25 pm

#Sponsored? The FTC wants disclosures on paid content from social media influencers. All your favorite apps are coming together. Snapchat partners with other big names to give us more location information. Now that’s customer service! Watch brand calls thousands of customers to personally apologize. Is Amazon’s ad business threatening Facebook and Google? Research from Catalyst suggests it might be.

DETAILS, Please

What marketers should know about the FTC’s crackdown on influencer-driven social media. Some influencers aren’t happy with these requirements. Check out the FTC’s recommended hashtags for paid content.

Snapchat Context Cards will bring a lot more information to snaps. Swipe up for more. The social media giant teamed up with other big brands, including TripAdvisor, Lyft and OpenTable, to bring about this new feature.

This brand is calling 17,819 customers to personally apologize. It may be a publicity stunt, but it’s still good customer service. Here’s why Filippo Loreti is calling so many of its customers.

63 percent of Amazon advertisers plan to increase spending over the next year. Amazon’s shopper data could be too good to pass up. More brands are planning to up their Amazon advertising budgets than their Google and Facebook advertising budgets.

Meanwhile, back at the RANCH

Bars now serving virtual reality to attract Millennials. VR is popping up across markets from healthcare to travel. Now it’s creeping into nightlife as clubs and bars attempt to attract a waning Millennial market.

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